Traffic Alert: East Main Street Closing for Bike Event

East Main Street in downtown Berryville will be closed from Church Street to Chalmers Court for the Bike Virginia event being held on Saturday, June 23, 2012. The closure will begin at 12:00 noon and will run through midnight.

Local access will be available for Washington Square Apartments on the east end of the closure.

Detours will be clearly marked. Additional parking for the downtown event will be available at Duncan Memorial Church parking lot.

There’s a bike trail in Loudoun Co! Dangerous for bicycles on Sensey and 601. I often come up on these bicyclers and they have no respect for automobiles. Often taking up an entire traffic lane. Yet the citizens in automobiles pay the taxes, and tag their vehicles. These riders should be restricted to bike trails only!

You really believe these bicyclist don’t pay taxes themselves? The next time you retake your driving exam, pay attention to the part where bicycles have the same right on the road as a car. How much respect should they show to drivers who speed by them, lay on the horn as they drive by, throw things at them, or refuse to understand basic driving laws?

RW, I did go to the link and all I found was colors of routes but not any routes listed- only a mention about the mill and another link to gps site. And nope, don’t sign up for stuff like that even if its free.
Maybe I just missed it.

Actually this isn’t the regular bike group that comes into town every year, this group is coming Friday evening, parking at the fairgrounds, registering at the old HS where tents will be set up for sleeping if needed and Sat. a shuttle bus will be going back and forth between the town and the old HS for the celebration in town, we will be having a very large cup cake cake, wine tasting, a beer garden, outside bands, vendor tents and music in the Barns. This group is expected to generate over $1 million in revenue for the town and the town merchants. They leave Sunday morning to ride over to W. Va. And come back around Wed. through Fri. You should come into town saturday and enjoy the fun with the rest of us!

Thanks for the link and it was the same that I searched earlier. Thought maybe they updated and had a map showing road numbers or names and unless my computer blocks the info, the only thing found was pink, orange routes with miles and that give me nothing as to the roads traveled.

Just looking for the roads they will be traveling to avoid any possibility of getting into a tight situation. Been there before and it could have gotten ugly from the other driver coming toward me. Not trying to be spiteful just want to stay clear.

Uuuuuggghhhh, the bikes are back. Who cares about the 1M revenue, if Clarke were to wake up sometime or another and generate much more needed businesses. The county residents would not have to worry about bicyclist who seem to think they own the road more than a vehicle does.

Be grateful these folks are coming to Clarke to recreate and to spend their cash. Moreover, its their tax money, and the tax money from folks like them across the country, that is used to fill our potholes and repair our roads. Our local folks are few and too cheap to do it themselves. They’re spending our cash on horses, dogs, and scenic vistas, the kids be damned.

Wow, what negativity, these bicyclists are guest in our beautiful county, yes they can be a small problem on our narrow roads, but come on we are talking about a day or two a year, deal with it. As for the revenue they bring, great, but I will welcome anyone to come out here and enjoy what we have even if they come with empty pockets.

The horse people stopped the hot air balloons at the “Balloon Festival” because the balloons frightened the horses. Its well known that dogs don’t like bicyclists, so as a dog owner I don’t want my dogs upset either. You all can have your bicycle event but we need to keep the bikes off the roads so the dogs in the area aren’t upset. I suggest they set up a circuit in the Food Lion parking lot and ride around it, or perhaps set up some tread mills to ride on at the fairgrounds. SAVE OUR DOGS!!! Keep the bikes tethered!!!!

I wonder how many dog complaints there will be?…probably at least a few I’m sure. I like your thinking Big Dog! I can’t wait to see if Clarke actually gets the revenue they plan on. I can’t wait to get this weekend over with and hope the bicyclist have some common sense and courtesy. Do NOT stop on the other side of the hill in the middle of the road or around a curve. We will have courtesy but we expect the same in return. We can not stop our vehicles on a dime like you can a bike, but yet that seems to be what they expect.

You are forgetting the people around here. Face it, this is not a “fun” county, people don’t seem to want to go with the flow, and have to argue if extra security is needed. No one seems to realize, bikers on the road know a car is there. You do not have to come to a dead stop and then go way over in the other lane.

Yeah, and I am sure we spent tons for the extra help, and got no where near the $million expected in extra revenue. I think the only people who got sales were the chuck wagon trucks that came in out of town and set up at the high school. A very sad affair indeed.